{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Episparis taiwana.jpg | image_caption = ''Episparis taiwana'' | taxon = Episparis | authority = Walker, [1857] | synonyms = *''Neviasca'' <small>Walker, [1859]</small> *''Pradiota'' <small>Walker, 1866</small> *''Epigrypodes'' <small>Turner, 1936</small> *''Episparina'' <small>Berio, 1964</small> *''Episparonia'' <small>Berio, 1964</small> }}
'''''Episparis''''' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1857.
==Description== Palpi upturned and hairy. Third joint minute. A short frontal tuft present. Antennae bipectinated to two-thirds length in male. Thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hair. Tibia hairy. Forewings with straight costa. Outer margin excised from vein 5 to outer angle. Hindwings with produced outer margin to a point at vein 3 and excised below the point.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} * ''Episparis agnesae'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis angulatilinea'' <small>Bethune-Baker, 1906</small> * ''Episparis brunoi'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis connubens'' <small>Holland, 1894</small> * ''Episparis costistriga'' <small>(Walker, 1864)</small> * ''Episparis emmanueli'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis experimens'' <small>Walker, 1862</small> * ''Episparis farinosa'' <small>Bryk, 1915</small> * ''Episparis fenestrifera'' <small>Bryk, 1915</small> * ''Episparis gomphiona'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> * ''Episparis grandis'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis hannemanni'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis hieroglyphica'' <small>Holland, 1894</small> * ''Episparis homoeosema'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> * ''Episparis hyalinata'' <small>(Holland, 1920)</small> * ''Episparis jacquelina'' <small>Swinhoe, 1902</small> * ''Episparis lamprina'' <small>Holland, 1894</small> * ''Episparis leucotessellis'' <small>Hampson, 1902</small> * ''Episparis liturata'' <small>(Fabricius, 1787)</small> * ''Episparis lunata'' <small>Holland, 1894</small> * ''Episparis malagasy'' <small>Viette, 1966</small> * ''Episparis minima'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis monochroma'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> * ''Episparis okinawensis'' <small>Sugi, 1982</small> * ''Episparis penetrata'' <small>Walker, [1857]</small> * ''Episparis sinistra'' <small>(Holland 1894)</small> * ''Episparis spilothyris'' <small>Viette, 1956</small> * ''Episparis sponsata'' <small>(Fabricius, 1787)</small> * ''Episparis sylvani'' <small>Pelletier, 1982</small> * ''Episparis taiwana'' <small>Wileman & West, 1929</small> * ''Episparis tortuosalis'' <small>Moore, 1867</small> * ''Episparis varialis'' <small>(Walker, 1858)</small> * ''Episparis vitrea'' <small>(Saalmuller, 1891)</small> * ''Episparis xanthographa'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> {{div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/episparis/ |title=''Episparis'' Walker, [1857] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 14, 2019 |archive-date=January 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023438/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/episparis/ |url-status=dead }} * {{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}} {{Commons category}}
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Category:Pangraptinae Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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